Terms & Conditions

Project Terms
  • By accepting a quote, you agree to and accept the terms and conditions of RossCo Innovations LLC Acceptance can be verbal, by email, payment of Initiation, signing a quote.
  • Any bugs (programming errors) reported during or just after the development does not attract additional charges.
  • Any re-work on an already completed task will attract additional charges. Any changes in the design after the design approval will incur additional charges.
  • Any delays at client’s end, may delay the project and proposed timeframes and may incur additional costs.
  • All estimates/quotes are based on our understanding of your requirements and as per given time-frame. Any changes to the functionality including micro-improvements, may incur additional costs accordingly. Please ensure and clarify our understanding in a face to face meeting.
  • Clients to ensure that we have included all requirements in the quotes/proposals/estimates and that we fully understand their requirements. Clients must provide us with clear guidelines along with the flow or specific details they may require. When such details are not provided, we will proceed with our understanding of the requirements and quote accordingly. At a later stage, if a discrepancy arises, it may lead to additional costs to accommodate the changes. Thus, it is essential that you clarify every aspect of your website development and ensure that you have been quoted on the right requirements.
  • Any complexity related to specific tasks, must be advised in advance and included in the proposal for costing purposes. We operate in good faith and rely on our clients to disclose the full picture at the time of quotation. Any discrepancy arising due to unclear requirements will not be the responsibility of RossCo Innovations LLC.
  • The website or software application will be designed to be deployed on the web, via using a commercial grade web-server or a similar setup. Based on your website traffic, the website may not perform if deployed on a generic office network environment.
  • Depending upon the functionalities required, there may be 3rd party components such as Third Party Payment Gateways or SSL certificates involved in building a website/application. Although RossCo Innovations LLC does its best in recognizing the suitability of any such component, any unforeseen limitations of 3rd party components are beyond our control. Any third-party component purchase costs (such as SSL, Payment gateway, Google Adwords, Plug-in licenses etc) are not included in our quotes.
  • RossCo Innovations LLC takes no responsibility of any open source products such as WordPress, Open Source carts, Joomla etc. It is the client’s responsibility to update all components and third party software. We suggest you take regular back-ups to avoid any disruptions.
  • RossCo Innovations LLC offers packages in co-ordination with third party providers. Changes to the third-party provider’s rules and policies may ultimately affect the services we provide or the terms and conditions herein.
  • All Web Design/Development, Graphic Design, Video Production, Motion Graphic Design and any other work produced by RossCo Innovations LLC is copyrighted by RossCo Innovations LLC and only intended to be used by the company for which it was contracted. All RossCo Innovations LLC work is non-transferable.
Disputes/Liability/Indemnity
In an event of a dispute, RossCo Innovations LLC reserves the right to charge the client in full for the work done as well as for the resources spent in managing the dispute. In such an event, RossCo Innovations LLC reserves the right to charge the client without honoring any discounts that were previously honored in good faith. Under no circumstances will RossCo Innovations LLC be liable for any damages arising from misrepresentation or misinformation.

RossCo Innovations LLC reserves the right to refuse service to any client, if these are not aligned with our business operating principles and policies.

RossCo Innovations LLC provides its services as is, without any guarantees on security or other issues leading to loss of data, sale or reputation. We ensure to the best of our ability that our systems and servers are protected from hackers, viruses, intruders and other online/offline problems, however, we will not be held liable for any disruption of services if such situation arises.

Relationship of RossCo Innovations LLC with its suppliers, partners and sub-contractors is of an independent nature. None of the parties have any power, right or authority to interfere or bind the other or assume or create any obligation or responsibility, whether expressed or implied, on behalf of the other or in the other’s name.

Client will indemnify and hold RossCo Innovations LLC, its licensors, content providers, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors, contractors and sub-contractors (the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from your breach of any of these Terms And Conditions or any other terms, conditions, policies or procedures herein, including, without limitation, any use of content other than as expressly authorized in these Terms and Conditions. Client agrees that the indemnified parties will have no liability in connection with any such breach or unauthorized use, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from any and all resulting loss, damages, judgments, awards, costs, expenses, and attorneys’ fees in connection therewith. You will also indemnify and hold the Indemnified Parties harmless from and against any claims brought by third parties arising out of your use of the information obtained from RossCo Innovations LLC.

RossCo Innovations LLC will not be liable for any breach of the agreement which is caused by a matter beyond its reasonable control including but not limited to Act of God, fire, lightning, explosion, war, disorder, flood, earth quake, industrial disputes (whether or not involving their employees), extremely severe weather, or acts of local or central government or other competent authorities.

Intellectual Property
All content of this website is a property of RossCo Innovations LLC unless otherwise specified. RossCo Innovations LLC reserves the right to change the content or policies without any prior notice.

The project related copyrights can be transferred to the client at an additional cost, after the full payment of the project and upon signing the Certificate of Acceptance. RossCo Innovations LLC reserves the rights to refuse the transfer of ownership if irregular circumstances arise.

Copyrights handed over to the client do not include rights to re-use the code for another website or re-sell the programming codes for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. In the case of business restructuring or ownership change, ownership of the website may be transferred from one owner to another. New owners are not allowed to re-sell or re-use for any commercial or non-commercial purpose. RossCo CMS is a proprietary CMS of RossCo Innovations LLC and cannot be transferred to any external host.

In an event of a Webmaster change, site owners are not allowed to display the credits to the new website, unless such time that the website functionality and appearance is changed by over 50% of our original work.

Domains
  • All domain registrations and renewals are to be paid in advance.
  • Expiration of a domain can result in service disruption and loss of domain.
  • RossCo Innovations LLC will not be responsible if a domain expires due to non-payment / late payment of the charges. All payments must be made by seven working days before the expiry date.
  • It is client’s responsibility to renew their domain names with us.
  • All invoices and dues must be paid in full before we release the requested domain name.
  • RossCo Innovations LLC has the domains in a common pool account and therefore cannot give access to its domain control panel.
  • RossCo offer packages in co-ordination with third party providers. Changes to the third party provider’s rules and policies may ultimately effect the services we provide or the terms and conditions herein.
Hosting
  • Hosting is an annual charge which must be paid in advance for the whole year. Except if the client is under one of our Maintenance packages.
  • It is the client’s responsibility to renew the hosting in time ie. before the expiry date. Failure to renew in time can lead to loss of files, data, emails, backups etc. All unpaid hostings are disabled or deleted from the server.
    All renewals must be paid by seven working days prior to the expiry date. RossCo will not be responsible for issues relating to delayed payment.
  • Hosting are on shared and non-shared servers hosted via third party providers. RossCo Innovations ensures best to our ability that our systems and servers are protected from hackers, viruses, intruders and other online and offline problems, however we will not be held liable for any disruption of services if such situation arises.
  • Client is solely responsible for the content stored on and served by the hosting service purchased and the activity of any scripts or email services created under the hosting service. The Customer must maintain the security of all account passwords and applications or scripts and ensure all scripts under the hosting service are free from malicious content that may harm any part of the Server, other client accounts hosted, or the external systems of visitors viewing the hosted content.
  • In case of a malware attack, RossCo reserves the right to delete files on the hosting service without giving any prior notice.
Payment/Refund Terms
  • All prices are quoted in US dollars unless specified otherwise.
  • All invoices are to be processed as per the schedule via your preferred method of payment.
  • There is a surcharge charged for payments made via Xero Accounting Software. This is charged by Stripe for the credit card payments.
  • Milestone payments must be made within 5 working days of each milestone/schedule, unless mutually agreed otherwise. Final payment must be made prior to website/application/project going live.
  • Receipt of payment is deemed as acceptance of the quote, milestone, delivery, project and terms & conditions.
  • RossCo Innovations reserves the right to negotiate and refund appropriate portion of the amount paid by customer towards the requested service. If you cancel your order after making the payment, but the work has not commenced, we will refund 75% of the payment that you have already made. If the order is cancelled after the commencement of work, the maximum refund or charge will be 50% of the invoice. There will be no refund or adjustments if cancellation is called when more than 50% of the work has been completed. All cancellations must be received in writing and can be sent via regular mail, email or fax. Telephone requests on cancellations will not be accepted.
    For minor or once-off works, payments need to be made either in advance or as per the terms mentioned in the invoice/proposal. If you require any changes to the terms, you must inform us in writing (emails accepted) within two working days of the receipt of the same.
  • Late fees and charges: All outstanding invoices will incur a late payment fee of 10% of the pending amount and an administration fee of $5.50 per month, from the due date.

Due date: Is the date on which the payment is due as per the terms on the invoice/proposal

Outstanding Invoice: An invoice is deemed to be outstanding if the payment is still due after 14 days of the expiry of the due date.

Debt Collection: Client is provided a further 7 days after late payment fee is applied to pay the invoice. Failure to pay will result in the outstanding amount referred to a debt collector. RossCo Innovations will not be liable for any costs or charges associated with the recovery of the outstanding amount. Any charges associated with the recovery of the outstanding amount (debt collectors, administration charges, legal fees) will be referred to the client for processing.

  • If you are late with a payment or have any queries regarding the Invoice, please contact Accounts Manager immediately on receiving the invoice or reminder emails.
  • All communications/correspondences are generally done via emails. It is client’s responsibility to keep us updated with their relevant email addresses.
  • Any payment relating to the domain name registration renewal or hosting or any 3rd party products or service purchased on behalf of the client will have to be paid in full and is non-refundable. In case of all renewal cancellations, we must be notified atleast 30 days before the renewal date.
  • RossCo Innovations generally builds and tests the websites/applications on our own servers or hosted domains. The website/application will be transferred-off to the nominated 3rd party server upon full payment of all invoices and dues.